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HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010

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HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.



Scenario 2:

Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:

Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 -
Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.



Scenario 5:

Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school..
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock
2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario 6:

Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.


Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2010 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.


Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
 

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T Vance wrote:
Sad, but true!
Whats sad is that the standard of living and quality of life was far better in 1957 than it is in 2010.

I would much rather live in the 40s and 50s than in today's time. My reason for this? PEOPLE WERE NORMAL BACK THEN! Today people are helpless infants trapped in adult bodies, who rely on "the man" to protect and provide for them.

The government we have today would have never survived back in 1957. It would have been total ANARCHY. The citizens AND government of 1957 WOULD call our current government today a boarder line communist style of government.

Please take note of my avatar....
 

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i wish it were still that way,for my sake.

and the bad kids in school are often treated better than the good kids.

something i noticed in my freshman year at high school,a gangster wannabe brought a handgun to school,and got in a fight,thankfully the ammunition was in his locker.

but he drew it.

he got expelled after getting tackled by some rather fat security guards.

but from what ive read(i cannot find stories on it anymore) he never was charged with anything.

the public had sympathy for this "scared,worried young man"



whereas a month or 2 beforehand at the same school,a friend of mine was expelled for having made an empty shotgun shell and a dog tag chain into a necklace,he served a few weeks in juevenile detention though i am not sure what for exactly.

no public outcry.





my point is,things are rarely handled properly in high school these days.

yall remember the california kid whom was expelled last month for keeping his shotgun in his truck off school grounds during school,after he went hunting?

and even older at my former school,the roger needham incident in which one student was killed and a 2nd wounded,that student only recieved counseling and is now well off from what ive read.

story can be found below,about 3/4 of the way down.(feb. 1978)

http://www.columbine-angels.com/School_Violence_Prior_to_August_1980.htm


my friend i mentioned before actually had the locker next to the one with the bullet hole above it.



sorry about the rambling,i am bored.
 

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lil_freak_66 wrote:
i wish it were still that way,for my sake.

and the bad kids in school are often treated better than the good kids.

something i noticed in my freshman year at high school,a gangster wannabe brought a handgun to school,and got in a fight,thankfully the ammunition was in his locker.

but he drew it.

he got expelled after getting tackled by some rather fat security guards.

but from what ive read(i cannot find stories on it anymore) he never was charged with anything.

the public had sympathy for this "scared,worried young man"



whereas a month or 2 beforehand at the same school,a friend of mine was expelled for having made an empty shotgun shell and a dog tag chain into a necklace,he served a few weeks in juevenile detention though i am not sure what for exactly.

no public outcry.





my point is,things are rarely handled properly in high school these days.

yall remember the california kid whom was expelled last month for keeping his shotgun in his truck off school grounds during school,after he went hunting?

and even older at my former school,the roger needham incident in which one student was killed and a 2nd wounded,that student only recieved counseling and is now well off from what ive read.

story can be found below,about 3/4 of the way down.(feb. 1978)

http://www.columbine-angels.com/School_Violence_Prior_to_August_1980.htm


my friend i mentioned before actually had the locker next to the one with the bullet hole above it.



sorry about the rambling,i am bored.
I to am a Everett graduate, I was suspended in 1982 for wearing my shooting medals
to school appealed and sued the school for first amendment violations. got put int he hospital my senior year the dorks sent the Police to drag me to class yeah let me get my I.V pole what IDIOTS, then a couple of the foot ball players kicked over a girl in her wheelchair and the teachers/staff did NOTHING. the D&D nerd (me) tossed them a beating they won't forget .
 

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dukenukum wrote:
SNIP
I to am a Everett graduate, I was suspended in 1982 for wearing my shooting medals
to school appealed and sued the school for first amendment violations. got put int he hospital my senior year the dorks sent the Police to drag me to class yeah let me get my I.V pole what IDIOTS, then a couple of the foot ball players kicked over a girl in her wheelchair and the teachers/staff did NOTHING. the D&D nerd (me) tossed them a beating they won't forget .
You're extremely lucky it wasn't one of those players that got four touchdowns in a single game... :)
 

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SpringerXDacp wrote:
dukenukum wrote:
SNIP
I to am a Everett graduate, I was suspended in 1982 for wearing my shooting medals
to school appealed and sued the school for first amendment violations. got put int he hospital my senior year the dorks sent the Police to drag me to class yeah let me get my I.V pole what IDIOTS, then a couple of the foot ball players kicked over a girl in her wheelchair and the teachers/staff did NOTHING. the D&D nerd (me) tossed them a beating they won't forget .
You're extremely lucky it wasn't one of those players that got four touchdowns in a single game... :)
lol. everett is lucky to get 4 touchdowns a season these days.
 

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Yooper wrote:
Most of the 1957 stuff applied to me in H.S., but then again, this is the U.P., and we're a little behind main stream
Sounds good to me, where do I sign up? Do I have to take a UP "English" course first eh?
 

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eastmeyers wrote:
Yooper wrote:
Most of the 1957 stuff applied to me in H.S., but then again, this is the U.P., and we're a little behind main stream
Sounds good to me, where do I sign up? Do I have to take a UP "English" course first eh?

do we get ta meet da yoopers??i love da yoopers!

..now i got da turdy point buck stuck in my head....



i gots me a yooper girl up around manistique(cooks to be exact) that i wanna see,i just dont feel worthy enough to mess with da yooper girls ya know it?



eh?
 

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lil_freak_66 wrote:
eastmeyers wrote:
Yooper wrote:
Most of the 1957 stuff applied to me in H.S., but then again, this is the U.P., and we're a little behind main stream
Sounds good to me, where do I sign up? Do I have to take a UP "English" course first eh?

do we get ta meet da yoopers??i love da yoopers!

..now i got da turdy point buck stuck in my head....



i gots me a yooper girl up around manistique(cooks to be exact) that i wanna see,i just dont feel worthy enough to mess with da yooper girls ya know it?



eh?
Gotta be careful wit da Yooper girls eh!! Or dey might bust ya up don't ya know.
 

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If I could find a nice "out in the woods" piece of property in the Upper I would be there in a heart beat!! I hate living in the city. they took this country boy out of the country but the country is still in me.....
 

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Yooper wrote:
lil_freak_66 wrote:
eastmeyers wrote:
Yooper wrote:
Most of the 1957 stuff applied to me in H.S., but then again, this is the U.P., and we're a little behind main stream
Sounds good to me, where do I sign up? Do I have to take a UP "English" course first eh?

do we get ta meet da yoopers??i love da yoopers!

..now i got da turdy point buck stuck in my head....



i gots me a yooper girl up around manistique(cooks to be exact) that i wanna see,i just dont feel worthy enough to mess with da yooper girls ya know it?



eh?
Gotta be careful wit da Yooper girls eh!! Or dey might bust ya up don't ya know.


this here is my super yooper,when we were out fishin on gooseneck lake in the hiawatha by her cabin.

100_0426.jpg


shes the blonde,and im the scruffy thing next to her.

yall wouldnt believe this probably,but we met through ted nugent himself,via his couch segment on spirit of the wild.

i miss my super yooper,she is my turdy pointer.

n since were talkin yoopers,heres da yoopers!!!

this first song is a holy song in november.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY

this is the love song one i mentioned at the owosso ponderosa



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3q3x-vB_JE





for properties...im very sure i could call her and she would know some places,got any size your looking for?
 

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SpringerXDacp wrote:
dukenukum wrote:
SNIP
I to am a Everett graduate, I was suspended in 1982 for wearing my shooting medals
to school appealed and sued the school for first amendment violations. got put int he hospital my senior year the dorks sent the Police to drag me to class yeah let me get my I.V pole what IDIOTS, then a couple of the foot ball players kicked over a girl in her wheelchair and the teachers/staff did NOTHING. the D&D nerd (me) tossed them a beating they won't forget .
You're extremely lucky it wasn't one of those players that got four touchdowns in a single game... :)
Did not matter if my Dad would have found out I let a Girl take a beating and did nothing his wrath would make any thing they could do seem like a tap.
 
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lil_freak_66 wrote:
Yooper wrote:
lil_freak_66 wrote:
eastmeyers wrote:
Yooper wrote:
Most of the 1957 stuff applied to me in H.S., but then again, this is the U.P., and we're a little behind main stream
Sounds good to me, where do I sign up? Do I have to take a UP "English" course first eh?

do we get ta meet da yoopers??i love da yoopers!

..now i got da turdy point buck stuck in my head....



i gots me a yooper girl up around manistique(cooks to be exact) that i wanna see,i just dont feel worthy enough to mess with da yooper girls ya know it?



eh?
Gotta be careful wit da Yooper girls eh!! Or dey might bust ya up don't ya know.


this here is my super yooper,when we were out fishin on gooseneck lake in the hiawatha by her cabin.

100_0426.jpg


shes the blonde,and im the scruffy thing next to her.

yall wouldnt believe this probably,but we met through ted nugent himself,via his couch segment on spirit of the wild.

i miss my super yooper,she is my turdy pointer.

n since were talkin yoopers,heres da yoopers!!!

this first song is a holy song in november.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY

this is the love song one i mentioned at the owosso ponderosa



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3q3x-vB_JE





for properties...im very sure i could call her and she would know some places,got any size your looking for?
You're the scruffy thing with the sunglasses?
 

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no,but i shoulda had some...that was on the 4th of july,practically no clouds,and the sun was shinin off the lake so bad i was squinting the whole day.
 
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